I wish I was in Ghana

Well, the adoption is proceeding.

So far we've gotten two pictures and a social welfare report. It is frustrating because with every little bit of information we receive, it just gives us more questions!

For instance, the social welfare report said that our little one has Kwashiorkor, a form of severe protein malnutrition. We later recieved a report from our contact in Ghana who said he had taken our little girl and her biomom to the hospital on Sat. and "they were fine" but baby needs formula. Ok, we can believe that if baby has kwashiorkor, then she needs formula, however, from everything I've read if a baby is diagnosed with kwashiorkor, then they probably need to be hospitalized?? Kwashiorkor is a medical term that has Ghanian roots, so I'm wondering if they use the term kwashiorkor interchangably with malnutrition?? The only thing we can do is email our contact again and again with questions....

Anyways, a family who is also with our agency is traveling to Ghana this week so we are sending money with them to take to our contact so he can buy formula for our baby and hopefully get her back on tracky nutrition wise.

We sent our I600A to be approved on Monday. The funny thing is that we got our I800A approval on Friday!! So I copied the I800A approval and wrote a little letter about our transferring programs..hopefully that will speed our I600A approval.

My understanding is that as soon as Ghana receives our dossier elements and our I600A approval we should proceed fairly quickly. Our adoption agent, Robin, said it could even be as early as March!! How fast!!! I am soooo not ready..so much to do. I'm hoping that Valentine's weekend will be spent painting the nursery and getting it ready.

Love!